From: CzechMarionettes-AT-aol.com Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:29:38 EDT To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: [Puptcrit] Re: maximum luggage size -- but it costs What I meant is 100 lb and 8 feet length (more for a pole vaulting pole or a surfboard mast, but you may not get those on every flight) is the maximum the airlines will ever let you put on as accompanying luggage. They will make you pay for it through the nose, unless you have a special deal with them. But even our Official Carrier, Czech Airlines (pretty limited in flights) is getting touchy about allowing those sizes without extra payment. Pakistanis, on the other hand, first scared us with playing bad cop, then let us have all the oversizes-cum-weights without charge. Quite often, if we don't have deal negotiated beforehand, with a letter from our non-profit puppet(!) theatre company in hand, we manage to talk the airline into either less then they would charge by the book or nothing one way, and then they sock it to us returning (or vice versa). Vit Horejs P.S.: But shouldn't you be able to get a former-pilot 20-pieces extra luggage, oversize, overweight (the luggage) allowance? v In a message dated 9/20/2005 4:38:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Jimsan777-AT-aol.com writes: In a message dated 9/12/05 21:02:58, peter-AT-tanglewoodmarionettes.com writes: > who would be > > willing to help her untangle? > even some extra luggage allowance (maximum size is > really 8 > feet length and 100 lb, and they have made us pull out stuff out of > a trunk to > comply with the 100 lb limit) .Also, tell me which airline allorws 100 pounds... I've been all over the world the past two years...70 pounds was allowed some time ago, if you flew first class...I suppose if you ship air cargo, it might be 100 pounds, but regular allowance today domestic USA is 50 pounds per box for free, +$25 more if over 50 and under 70. If an airline allows 100 pounds, it must be a once in a lifetime good deal.. Jim Gamble (retired Airline captain and traveling puppeteer.) THE CZECHOSLOVAK-AMERICAN MARIONETTE THEATRE Coming soon to the Memorial Arch near you (Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn) Bass Saxophone based on a story by Josef Skvorecky In wartime Czechoslovakia occupied by Nazis, young jazz lovers risk their lives to play prohibited swing music Previews: Fri 9/30 8 pm Sat 10/1/ 8 pm Sun 10/2 3 pm October 7-October 30 -- Fri & Sat at 8:00 pm, Sat and Sun matinees at 3 pm; czechmarionettes-AT-aol.com_ http://www.czechmarionettes.org/_ (http://www.czechmarionettes.org/) 212-777-3891 _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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